Alert & Oriented x3

The best news you can hear while getting report.

Bed Baths

So many bed baths.

Catheters

No matter how many you do, you still get one that's just...

Dilaudid

AKA Nectar of the Gods.

EMR

Because if you didn't chart it, you didn't do it.

Family Drama

Which inevitably starts when you're in the room so you're just standing in the room like...

Grossing Out Your Family & Friends

Is dinner really over if you haven't talked about diarrhea?

Hand Hygiene

Because who needs soft & non-bleeding hands when you can use hand sanitizer 400 times a day?

IVs

And that moment you get a hard stick.

Jokes to Get Us Through the Shift

How else do we get through a 12-hour shift?

K for Potassium

And if you aren't a nurse, you probably won't understand why.

Lunch

Hahahaha, what's that?

Medications

The bane of our existence.

Night Shift

Either the best or absolute worst thing that can happen to you.

Opioids

Oh really? You're allergic to all of the pain medicine but the one that "starts with a D?" I'm sure.

Patient Satisfaction

Sure, let me get you that third warm blanket as I put a new pair of socks on you. Nothing's more important than making you happy.

Quiet

The one word that must never be used on the floor.

Residents

Those students that think they know everything but really you have to guide in the right direction so they don't kill somebody.

Sundowners

They're real. And they're terrifying.

Techs

Who we wouldn't survive the day without.

Urine

It somehow manages to get EVERYWHERE.

Vomit

Which also manages to get everywhere.

WebMD

If somebody mentions that one more time, I swear...

Xanax

A little nursing dose never hurt anybody.

Yawning

We're experts on hiding them.

Zzzz's

Something that you just can't wait to get.